smooth and still
no milk from this cow
forever
- This cast statue of a cow guards the entrance to the Black Rock veterinary surgery. There is not much call on bovine healing skills in suburban bayside Melbourne
cows grazing
milking has finished
smooth evening
2. A beautiful Autumn sunset in the far West of Victoria near Yambuk.
smooth water
strawberry milkshake
pink sunset
3. Port Phillip Bay turns on another fascinating sunset for those who appreciate it.
smooth singer
milking the marrow
from a bone
4. A young magpie enjoys what is left of Charlie”s bone
bright young bird
feathers like milk froth
down so smooth
5. A fledgling Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike calls for its parents.
This is my contribution to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge 84 Milk&Smooth. To explore creative haiku from an international array of poets visit https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-84-milksmooth/
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Charming photo of the fledgling shrike. Engaging contrast between the soft feathers and the harsh twisted wires.
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This particular perch right between the couplings on the electricity wires has been favoured across some weeks by this young bird. The parents also sit here. I just stand in my back yard and zoom in with the lens.
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Great haiku, the photos too!
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Thanks Meredith, I had a lot of fun doing this weeks challenge
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They are beautiful photographs, and haiku poems dear Denis, life can be diffictult sometimes for animals too… Thank you, have a nice day, love, nia
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Thanks Nia, usually animals deal with problems a lot better than humans do.
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Some lovely imagery in this collection– it all worked well–from the strawberry milkshake sunset to the frothy bird breast and that Cow picture fooled me–I thought it was a real at first 🙂
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Thanks Janice. I think a few dogs get fooled by the cow when they visit the vet.
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That could be upsetting for some dogs. Our dogs bark when cows come out to graze across the road from us.
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You have a set of masterful haiku there Denis. I did enjoy the imagery of strawberry milkshake sunset. Hope you have a great week.
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Thanks Olga, there were lots of opportunities with that prompt I just kept going.
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You certainly did, in a good way!
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Enchanting! Love the “smooth singer” and also the “smooth water” the best, I think. Strawberry milkshake! 😀 Milking the marrow!
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Thanks Lizl, I was thinking haiku draft for the subject with the challenge words then went looking for the images in my library this time.
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It certainly worked! 🙂
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Magpie and milkshake sunset photos and haiku are just sublime. That magpie’s eye really catches mine. 🙂
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Thanks Melissa, there was much creative scope with those words. The magpie was watching Charlie who was standing behind me watching the magpie with her bone.
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Interesting pictures and great haiku to go with each one. That statue of a cow with a cast is so intriguing and the one of the bird eating marrow is so creepy. its eyes look red. I love it. Very cool post. 😉
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Thanks for your compliments Vashti. Lifelike statues of farm animals are common in Australia and often used as an advertisement outside a business like at this vet except a cow is more appropriate in farming communities not suburban Melbourne. Magpies have brown eyes , the reddish colour is caused by the low angle of the sun. They are beautiful birds , have a lovely range of song and are very tame around people, very fearless. This one was only a metre from me and watching Charlie with that eye.
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